Album



(No Model.)

O. J4. GRIFFITHS.

ALBUM.

Patented Mar. l2, 1889.

ATTORNEY.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OIVEN J. GRIFFITHS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ALBUM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,324, dated March 12, 1889.

Application filed March 23, 1886. Serial No. 196.220. (No modeLl ,To 11,71 'whom it my concern.-

Be it known that I, OWEN J. GRIEFITHS, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented eertain new and useful Improvements in Photograph-Albums; and I do hereby declare that the following is a iull, elear, and eXaet description ot' t-he invention, Whieh will enable others skilled in the art to ivhieh it appertains to make and use the same, ret'erenee being had to the aeeompanying drawings, and to letters of refereneeniarked thereon,whieh forni a part of this specification.

My invention relates to pietnre or photograph albums wherein there are provided writing-straws in proximity to the pictures, adapted to reeeive deseriiiitive or biographieal sketches or other writt en matter pertaining to the pictures or the sub'ieets tlnifreol'; and it eonsists of iimn'ovements in the eonstrnetion of the leaves ot" suoh albums, as will be hereinafter pointed ont.

Figure l is a Yl'aee vien ol' an open album e1nbo lyng nrv invention; Alfig. a section through one ot the leaves.

In the drawings, B designates.l one of the leaves of the album, having the usual sightopening, through which the photograph C is displayed, and the slit t) near the lower edge of the leat, through which the photograph is inserted. The paper e, which surrounds the sight-opening and through which is formed the slit t), may be embossed, roughened, porous, or of any other fano'v design which taste may dictate. The opposite page or face, A, of

l l l i l The leaves B are ot a size substantially corresponding to the photographs which they hold, and are so bound together in the album that the blank page A of one leat' is opposite to the face ot the adjaeent leat eontaining the sight-opening.

l am aware that it has been proposed to make a Combined photograph and autograph album in one having the sightopenings and the writing-spaces side byside upon the same t'aees oi the leaves. 'lhe following adv-an tages, however, are incident to an album made up of leaves sueh as I have described. I avoid making the album undul \v large and enmbrons when arranged to reeeive large pictures; and, l'urther, I am enabled to get much more pleasing elteets in the ornamentation ot` the album, sinee the paper e, surrounding the sight-opening, and the paper A, which receives the writing, being on opposite faces l ot' the leal", do not; overlap or meet eaeh other upon the Surface ofi" the leat with the attend- IVhat I claim is- A picture-album having leaves, eaeh ot' l which has a sight-opening at one side or face of a size adapted to a picture corresponding in size to the capacity of the album and having its opposite side closed and formed of a hard-.finished paper, substantially as set forth. In testimony that I elaim the foregoing as my own I hereunto atiix my signature in presenee of two witnesses.

CHIEN J. GRIFFITHS. Witnesses:

JAMES I-i. COYNE, D. THoMAsoN. 

